2. Technology enables personalized medicine at scale — and personalized medicine is a must-have for successful population health.

Personalized medicine for treatment decisions.
Every hospital should be able #gene sequence suspected #infections instead of wait 3 days for culture results. @EricTopol

Personalized medicine of the pill
Close to 55% of drugs prescribed are ineffective for the patients they are prescribed for, per @gnshealthcare

Personalized patient engagement
“There’s got to be a better way” than just “take a pill that will solve all your problems” – Sky Christopherson, an Olympic cyclist & coach, who demonstrated by using data, not drugs to break world records and win Olympics. Because most health decisions happen between visits. whether a drug works or not depends on whether the patient takes it, and that is a decision solely in the patient’s hands.

3. Technology demands an Über-Doctor – a new kind of doctor. The job of the physician is changing due to manifold external pressures:

Pressures transforming the role of the physician. Shown by Eric Topol.

Docs be less involved in diagnosis. there are plenty of scans, labs, imaging so patients will be able to self-monitor and technology might read their results at a grand scale.

4. Sharing and collaborating requires trust and shared priorities.Trust someone won’t abuse private info.How do you remove the business interests that are barriers to sharing data – David Liss

5. The decentralization of healthcare providers and re-centralization around the patient.We need an internet of You. The patient is the only common entity between healthcare sites. “Internet of You” will require a customizable, interoperable platform that connects Internet-enabled devices.Care no longer in the locus of the hospital. no longer centralized. care all over the place. in the home. via telemedicine.